Tag: Layoffs

Today is the first day of the 5th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. Follow along on Twitter with hashtag #HCSummit14 to see my tweets and thoughts from others....

It's often said that Lean is about "doing more with less." Historically, and practically speaking, it's true. But, it's a phrase that we should be...

Thanks to a Google News Alert email, I get news stories (on a daily basis) about hospital layoffs around the country. Many of the articles...

Like yesterday's "live blog" post about the Autoliv talk, I also wrote this post as Art Byrne talked, but held it for publication today....

I was fortunate to have three interviews published in the past week, where I was talking about Lean Healthcare and Kaizen, so I thought...

While Lean is not primarily a cost-cutting methodology (or, we could say it's not focused ONLY on costs), cost reduction is a common end...

Mark's note: Here's another great vacation guest post by Jeff Hajek: By Jeff Hajek Despite having been fairly main stream for going on three decades now,...

Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for FierceHealthcare.com called "How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs." Here in 2012, I see headlines daily...

Ontario's Peterborough Regional Medical Centre is about 18 months into their Lean transformation. They are being featured in a series of four articles in...

In the Lean movement, organizations are often wise to have some variation on a "no layoffs due to Lean" policy, as I've written about...

After last week's piece on "putting the continuous back into continuous improvement," I had another article published this past week. This new article was published...

On a recent Sunday morning, I was watching cable news channels and two different commercials had a word jump out at me, words that...